[ietf-nntp] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-00.txt
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon May 17 04:24:18 PDT 2004
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> On the other hand, I think the client MUST send LIST EXTENSIONS before
> doing AUTHINFO SASL. After all, determining the list of SASL mechs is
> part of the protocol.
> So how about removing 2#4 completely and replacing the sentence at the
> end of 2#8 with:
> A client intending to use AUTHINFO SASL MUST issue the LIST EXTENSIONS
> command to obtain the available authentication mechanisms before
> attempting authentication. A client SHOULD issue LIST EXTENSIONS
> before attempting AUTHINFO USER/PASS to see if it is supported.
Ack, sorry, I missed an edit. I don't think we should remove 2#4; just
change MUST NOT to SHOULD NOT.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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